20+ Tips to Brand a Blog for Effective WEB Marketing

Start with your URL

Branding start with your URL or Domain name. Select a domain name which is easy to remember and catchy.

For example:-

www.shoutmeloud.com
www.devilsworkshop.com
www.crazydogtshirts.com

Choosing a Domain name is the basic and initial step for branding a blog as it carries or reflects your blog niche, so always be carefull in choosing your domain name.

Creating Video Tutorials

Creating a video tutor and uploading it to famous video sharing website will attract many visitors to your blog. While uploading  add your blog logo or title in your video and embedded that video in your article whenever necessary.

Facebook  fanpage

This is the best way to brand and promote your blog. You can’t see any blog without facebook fanpage. Invite more friends and create a good fanpage  base for your blog. You can also show your fanpage to your readers in your blog sidebar using a small code.

Use Quality Image in your post

Image can speak better than thousand words, so use relevant and catchy images to your blog post. You can use flickr, photobucket or google images to find images for your articles. If u can try to use unique and Branded image or character for your blog like socialmediaexaminer use.

Example -

They use this Hunter character for their all blogpost with different expressions. They branded their blog with this unique character.

Proper Grammar

Use proper grammar and proof read your article before hitting the publish button. If you are not a good in English, try to explain the things in simple english that you know rather than spoiling it.

Sponsor a Contest

As a blogger we may host many contest in our blog and there will be a high demand for sponsoring a contest. Don’t loose this kind of good chance, if you are invited to become a sponsor for their contest, accept it and become a sponsor.

You can start it by sponsoring Free banner Ads or 20-30 dollars cash amount, i think it won’t be a big task for a new bloggers.

Themes with creative design

If you want to brand your blog quickly select themes that are not used by many bloggers. If you are geek, you can create your own theme according to your needs and make your blog visually appealing for the users.

Giveaway in your blog

Host any Giveaway or contest in your blog to make your readers happy. If your blog is new you can hold Top commentator award contest and provide free banners Ads in your site for the winner.

Check out some of the cool contest hosted by me and my friends.

Create a Forum and Help Others

Forum is one of the best place to interact with your readers and clarify their doubts. So start a forum in your blog and make readers to engage in your forum. If you don’t like in creating a forum you can have any Ask a question page in your blog.

You can Contact Me using contact us page for further doubts regarding SEO and Blogging.

LoGo

Logo can reach million of people quickly and easily. First decide the concept of your logo and design it in photoshop or any logo maker software. Use that logo in your twitter, facebook and Social media profiles to make it popular.

FaVicon

This will help you a little bit. Create a good favicon and add it to your blog. You can make it at least to prevent default favicon from theme generator.

Your own writing style

Beyond good grammar try to maintain a unique writing style. Try to write articles with humor touch, which wont make your readers feeling bored while reading your articles.

Unique Content

Make unique and quality content which differs from other sites. Make article on a topic which is not touched by other bloggers, which will surely brings a good impression about your blog.

Gravator for your Blog

Having a unique Gravator is very important for a blog. You can set your blog logo or your picture as your gravator.  It can attract many users in interent because it display your blog logo in all of your comments and in some social profiles automatically.

Start a Service like SEO or any Web related

If you know SEO or any other service like blogspot to WP migration, you can start in your blog. Provide quality service for your readers or users at low cost. This will surely works like a hell and it can surely drive a huge traffic, exposure and brand value to your Blog.

Dedicated ids for your Blog in all social n/w sites

Always use separate ids or username for your blog in social sites by giving your blog name as username for signup. So that it can display like this

Digg.com/user/technoskill

If any user google search your blog name, google will display all of your profiles to them which make them to feel how good your blog is in Social Media and also it is very good for SEO.

Write Guest post and get in return

Writing guest post in popular blog is very essential than article marketing. Try to deliver your best article in guest post because it can capture huge readers quickly and create a huge exposure to your blog.

If you write guest post on other blog simultaneously you can get guest post in return from some of them.

High PR and Alexa Rank

This tips looks crazy for some blogger, but the fact is if you have a good Alexa and Pagerank for your blog. Try to increase your Blog Alexa and Pagerak by building quality links to your site.

Tips -

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Interview with other blogger

Have you noticed, some of the TV channels will interview some famous celebrities like actor, politicians which can easily capture huge number of audience and increase their TRB rating.

Y can u try this in your blog ..

Just request any popular bloggers for an interview and post their interviews in your blog like “Interview with a pro-blogger” or  …somthing like that.

Write article on Magazine

If your geeky why are you restricting yourself within blogging, try to write good stuff in popular magazine in your area and share your experience with your reader in a separate articles.

Read – Raju pp[One of the Pro-bloggers of India] article which got featured in CHIP Magazine.

Be an innovator and trendy

Always try to make new things or make the things according to present trend. Don’t try to copy other’s article.

Unique Header & Footer

Header and footer is very important for a blog optimization and branding. If you cant make any new themes you can make your header and footer look different from others. Make them in a way that it should reflect your blog theme [niche].

Social Media Base for your blog

Social Media is very essential for a blog, if you have a good social media base of having 5k twitter followers and 1000 fans in facebook, how good it will be if a normal person sees this social media stats at first time.

Facebook emerging as a new era in social media as it has a capacity to beat google. Many people started to search inside facebook for finding friends and articles, so use your social media profile wisely to brand your blog.

what’s your Branding ides for your Blog ? share with us ….

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